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Оглавление - French Narratives
How France Taught the World to Live, Debate, and Maintain Balance
- Why France?
- Foreword
- Part One: The French Model
- Chapter 1: The Secret of the Golden Ratio
- Chapter 2: Life Balance
- Chapter 3: Quality of Life
- Chapter 4: The Role of Power and Society, and the French Capacity to Hold the Incompatible
- Chapter 5: Wisdom in Selflessness
- Chapter 6: The Emotional Intelligence of the French
- Chapter 7: Convictions as the Foundation of Quality of Life
- Chapter 8: Historical Flexibility
- Chapter 9: Why French Narratives Work as a Model of Balance
- Chapter 10: French Sketches
- Part Two: Four Key Narratives
- Chapter 1: Freedom as the Right to Be Oneself
- Chapter 2: Community and Equality as Aspiration to Justice
- Chapter 3: Style as a Form of Self-Expression
- Chapter 4: Resistance as the Inner Engine That Raises a Person After Defeats
- Chapter 5: How These Four Forces Balance Each Other
- Part Three: Four Arts
- Chapter 1: The Art of the Essential
- Chapter 2: The Art of the Finite
- Chapter 3: The Art of the Sufficient
- Chapter 4: The Art of the Eternal
- Part Four: France Explained Entertainingly
- Chapter 1: The Hexagon of Possibilities
- Chapter 2: Symbols of France
- Chapter 3: The World of Francophonie
- Chapter 4: French Education
- Chapter 5: The French Secret Garden
- Chapter 6: Doctor Immortality: Three Secrets of Longevity
- Chapter 7: The Delayed Reward Syndrome
- Chapter 8: What Self-Respect Costs
- Chapter 9: The French Attitude to Women
- Chapter 10: Frenchwomen’s Attitude to Themselves
- Chapter 11. French Cuisine — Pleasure in Every Mouthful
- Chapter 12. Painting and Literature
- Chapter 13. Bricolage, a Remedy for Alzheimer’s
- Chapter 14. How Fashion Became a Way of Life
- Chapter 15. The Market as Social and Emotional Heart
- Conclusion
- France as the Art of Presence, or How narratives become a way of living